The world premiere performance of poems by Hywel John and music by  Richard  Eteson  in aid of children’s charity Coram.

Eight poems written by Welsh poet  Hywel John  have been set into seven songs by English composer Richard  Eteson and are presented as a new song cycle for the first time in this world premiere performance given by acclaimed Countertenor James Hall  and accompanist  Dylan Perez.

One stormy day in 2018 a single ray of sunlight broke through the dark clouds over the Preseli Hills on the West Wales coast. It landed like a spotlight on a single hawthorn tree that seemed to spring impossibly from an ancient island of stones in the midst of a small marshy valley. Ever since, this unique place has been a constant source of solace and inspiration to writer Hywel John. Together with songwriter  Richard  Eteson, the poems from  Under the Hawthorn Tree  have become a cycle that captures the essence of this mysterious  landscape in new dimensions of song, sound and spoken word.

this song 
lives here where 
you find it 
alive

The performance will last approximately 1 hour without an interval.